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Legacies of mistrust : Why colonial imprints on the implementation of fiscal reforms in Mozambique and Mexico matter
No full textplaNext-Next Generation Planning Vol. 11 (2021) : Planning Theories from the Global South 106-124National authorities across Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa have implemented various forms of fiscal decentralization over the past three decades with equivocal results. The design of such reforms has long rested on theories based on the experiences of high-income countries’ efforts at increasing local autonomy, accountability, and basic service efficiencies. Critics of the global advocacy for fiscal decentralization, however, point to several challenges with its implementation across diverse political economies that differ significantly from those in high-income environments. Nonetheless, these critiques often obscure the impact that colonial regimes and their legacies have on current efforts to fiscally decentralize. In two post-colonial environments where fiscal decentralization projects have unrolled, namely Mozambique and Mexico, we show how colonial imprints remain critical to understanding efforts at fiscal decentralization. Our focus in these cases is on how race-based caste systems introduced under colonial administrations fed the development and evolution of dual governance systems across spaces and peoples that bred mistrust between residents, local authorities and central authorities. We argue that the conflicting rationales in evidence between stakeholders involved in fiscal decentralization projects today are rooted in the social mistrust and power struggles born from these colonial experiences. In conclusion, we contend that fiscal decentralization reforms must explicitly grapple with these spatialized and racialized legacies of mistrust and the diverse rationalities guiding stakeholders in both the design and evaluation of public policies meant to strengthen local autonomy, transparency, and efficiencies
A Lacanian understanding of the southern planning theorists' identification under the hegemony of western philosophy
Get PDFplaNext-Next Generation Planning Vol. 11 (2021) : Planning Theories from the Global South 62-80As a planning theorist who has studied and taught planning theory in the Global South and North, I grapple with the question - "What does planning theory mean in the Global South?" To answer this question, I ontologically investigate the meaning of Southern planning theory based on a Lacanian approach. Drawing on the Lacanian theory of human subjectivity, this article explains how planning theorists’ identities are constituted through their interactions within academia. Lacanian discourse theory assists in exploring how most Southern planning theorists adopt, internalise, and use hegemonic Western philosophy, ideas, and discourses as the only accepted mechanism of truth. Consequently, this process profoundly alienates Southern planning theorists from their local context, as they often devalue, overlook, and neglect non-Western beliefs, ideas, knowledge, and philosophy. I argue that although the number of Southern planning theorists has increased during the last decades, non-Western philosophy is seldom utilised as the core of their critical studies. Based on the Lacanian discourse theory, I show that they mostly remain in the hegemonic mechanism of knowledge production that is embedded in the colonial era
ExCo Meeting, Online, 10 March 2021
No full textThis is the material for the ExCo Meeting held online on 10 March 2021.
AGENDA
1. Welcome
2. Approval of the agenda
3. Approval of ExCo minutes and resolutions from February 2021AEKOM
4. AEKOM
• Overview of CoRep document and updates
5. Conference Officer Update
• AESOP Congress 2022 with proposal for fees for online attendance.
6. Secretary General Update
• Core curriculum
• AESOP Congress 2023 applications
• AESOP Online event applications
• Update on administrative processes for signing website/IR contract
7. AESOP Future Development
8. AESOP Logo
9. Treasurer Update
• Membership fees
10. ExCo Updates (QR, GPEAN, YA)
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The impact of actor-relational dynamics on integrated planning practice
Get PDFTransactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning; Volume 5 / Issue 1 / June 2021; page 9-22Integrated planning processes involve an increasing number of actors and aim to create synergy between multiple knowledges in communicative settings. Planning research has acknowledged that the actor-relational aspects of planning processes are not yet adequately understood, and that methods to reveal the often-invisible dynamics and their possible effects over time require development. This research aims at developing a methodological contribution for revealing the socio-communicative complexities of integrated planning processes, by focusing on the aspects of knowledge co-creation and process memory development. Actor-relational dynamics are explored through social network analysis and qualitative methods, using longitudinal data from a four-year strategic spatial planning process in the Finnish context. The findings indicate that a range of actor-relational dynamics affect the level of sectoral and scalar integration over time, and that social complexities have an essential role in enabling knowledge co-creation and process memory development. Unveiling actor-relational dynamics is a promising research direction, requiring new methods for bridging research and practice, and re-centring the need for understanding planning practice on the actor-relational level
Editorial - Volume 5 / Issue 1 / June 2021
Get PDFTransactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning; Volume 5 / Issue 1 / June 2021; i-iiThis issue (5.1) of Transactions of AESOP brings together a selection of papers submitted to recent rounds of the Best AESOP Congress Paper Award and an invited paper by Tuna Taşan-Kok the Chair of the AESOP Congress Paper Award Committee. They provide original and insightful contributions addressing key themes in contemporary planning research and practice
Rooting metropolitan planning in critical theory and participatory practices : A university planning experience in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Get PDFplaNext-Next Generation Planning Vol. 11 (2021) : Planning Theories from the Global South 44-61The paper aims at contributing to the discussion about planning theory and participatory practices in the Global South by focusing on a planning experience for the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, led by faculty, researchers and students at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, between 2009 and 2019. The initiative unveils the University autonomy in designing and carrying out the metropolitan analyses and planning proposals, in adopting theoretical principles and methodologies and, in developing an outreach programme tightly linked to education and research, resulting in significant improvements in planning education, innovations in planning methodology and the potential for rooting radical planning practices in the metropolitan context. First, objects and subjects of the experience are introduced, together with the three phases of the process: the drafting of a metropolitan plan known as the Integrated Development Master Plan for the RMBH; the Metropolitan Macro-Zoning; and the review of municipal Master Plans within RMBH. Secondly, the trajectory and influences of Brazilian urban and metropolitan planning are reviewed to the extent that they fed into the experience. The discussion of municipal planning processes leads to an assessment of the experience’s main achievements. The concluding section offers some thoughts on rooting metropolitan and urban planning in critical theory and participatory practices, as a means to contribute to discussions of planning practices in the Global South
Watson - Planning from the South: Learning from academia, praxis and activism
Get PDFVanessa Watson is Professor of City Planning in the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics and founder member of the African Centre for Cities, both at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She holds degrees from the Universities of Natal, Cape Town and the Architectural Association of London, and a PhD from the University of Witwatersrand, and is a Fellow of the University of Cape Town.
Her research and publications have been on planning theory from a Global South perspective, African cities and urbanisation, food security, informality and currently on planning and corruption in Africa. More recently she has followed the new economic forces re-shaping African cities, in particular the private-sector driven property development initiatives. Watson is Global South Editor of Urban Studies and an editor of Planning Theory.
She was the lead consultant for UN Habitat’s 2009 Global Report on Planning Sustainable Cities, was chair and co-chair of the Global Planning Education Association Network, and a founder of the Association of African Planning Schools
Editorial - Volume 5 / Issue 2 / (2020): Changing Contexts for Planning Education
Get PDFTransactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning; Vol. 5 No. 2 (2021): Changing Contexts for Planning Education; page i-iiThis issue (5.2) of Transactions of AESOP brings together a selection of papers which address current themes and issues in planning education. Two of the papers reflect on the experience of teaching modules submitted to recent rounds of the AESOP Excellence in Teaching Award (ETA), one reports on an experience of internationalisation in planning education, and one is an invited paper by Andrea Frank the present Chair of the AESOP ETA Committee. They all provide original and insightful contributions addressing key themes in contemporary planning education including, the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, new technologies and modes of teaching delivery, the teaching of landscape in planning programmes, and, the internationalisation of planning cohorts and curricula
CoRep Meeting, Online, 11 March 2021
No full textAGENDA
AESOP Council of Representatives Meeting
Online Meeting
09:00 CET 11 March 2021
01 Opening of the meeting
09:05 02 Approval of the agenda
09:10 03 Approval of the CoRep Minutes & Resolutions (July 2020)
09:15 04 Secretary General Updates
- AESOP membership applications
- AESOP TG’s
- AESOP collaborations (RSA / ACSP)
- AESOP President (2022 – 2024)
- Registration of the Board in Belgium
- Trademark registration
- Transactions Update
- Core Curriculum
10:00 05 Conference Officer’s report
- AESOP 2021 PhD Workshop
- AESOP 2021 Online Event
- AESOP 2022 Congress Updates
- AESOP 2023 Congress and PhD Workshop Host
11:00 06 AESOP Finance
11:15 07 AEKOM AEKOM
12:00 08 AESOP Quality Recognition
12:15 09 GPEAN & UN Habitat Update
12:30 10 AESOP Young Academics Network- AESOP Memories
12:45 11 AESOP Logo
12:55 12 AESOP future development
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Master Programme in Spatial Organisation and Design (Yildiz Technical University)
Get PDFYildiz Technical University
41.027640317633875, 28.89057941196
https://ror.org/0547yzj13University is acknowledged as an interdisciplinary study program in spatial planning efficiently backed by the environment of the Faculty of Architecture within which it is embedded. It brings together the following aspects of quality in planning education:
- Programme Curriculum and Identity
o Properly linked focus of the study programme to the main profile of the Department (City and Regional Planning) and the Faculty (Architecture). The clear response of design-centred curriculum to the profile of graduates compared to other study programmes offered by the Faculty.
o The pragmatic dimension of professional ethic awareness as an inherent part of students’ practical study engagement. A close link between students’ academic tasks and demands of societal practice.
o Understanding of contemporary societal change through the development of students’ individual awareness about their own role as experts for spatial organisation and design.
- Principles of Pedagogy
o Capitalising the potential of interdisciplinary staff and its pedagogical competences through encouraging the reflection on disciplinary biases.
o Best practice example of student/alumni/employer’s engagement by enabling its members to develop stronger relations with the university’s community, find mentorship and gain access to new professional networks.
o Fostering active and independent learning by providing the freedom to students when selecting the research topics within the given framework.
Exploiting students’ knowledge and skills from different disciplinary backgrounds to achieve mutual learning through group work, studio project, open debates, and exchange with practitioners